Happy 5th Birthday Sunny Studio Blog Hop Celebration....

 Hello everyone!!! Happy Saturday!!! I am beyond honored and grateful to now be part of the wonderful Sunny Studio Design Team family!!!! YAY!!! Today is extra special because we are having a huge celebration in honor of Sunny Studios' 5th birthday!!!!  I am happy and excited to join this fantastic blog hop!!! Happy, happy, happy 5th birthday to Sunny Studio!!! 

I am so honored to join the beyond wonderful and super talented Sunny Studio DT family, I am also joined by these two amazingly talented designers as new DT members for the Sunny Studio Stamps company!!! Congratulations Christiana and Isha. 

I created two cards to share with you today. I used the super awesome new Farm Fresh stamp set and coordinating dies for my first card and the beautiful Classy Christmas stamp set for my second card. 

For my first card, I began by die cutting the grassy hills and ground areas using the dies from the new 

Slimline Nature Borders dies. I then added color to them using Distress Inks. For the hills, I used Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron. For the sky, I used Salty Ocean, I then used the cloud border from the Slimline Nature Borders dies

to add clouds to the background using white pigment ink. 

Next, I colored all of my images using Copic markers. I then assembled the card, for the sentiment, I used the speech bubble from the Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies set. 

For my second card, along with the new beautiful Classy Christmas stamp set I used the new Slimline Scalloped Frame dies. 

I loved coloring these. I used Copic markers to color them in. 

For the sentiment, I used gold embossing powder. 

We have several wonderful promotions going on in honor of this celebration!!

We are each giving away a 25$ gift certificate to the Sunny Studio Stamps Online Store!!!

All you have to do is hop along each of the stops and leave a comment on each one for a chance to win. 

You will have until Wednesday, August 26th, 11:59 pm PDT to comment. 

You should have arrived here from the wonderful

Leanne blog

The next person on the hop is the super talented: 

  Rachel 

Here is the complete blog hop: 

Sunny Studio
Ana
Angelica
Anja
Ashley
Candice
Christiana
Franci
Isha
Juliana
Leanne
                        Mayra  <You are here
        Rachel Next
Tammy
Vanessa 

I hope you enjoy the cards I created to share with you today.

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

Wishing you each a wonderful and blessed day. 

Products Used: 

Farm Fresh 

Farm Fresh Coordinating Dies

Classy Christmas stamp set

Classy Christmas Coordinating Dies

Slimline Scalloped Frame 

Slimline Nature Borders

Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies

Sleek Stripes Paper 

BRI Hippity Hoppity ....

Hi everyone !! 

I am on the
Butterfly Reflections, Ink 

blog today . 

Woo~Hoo I am soo excited !! 

Yes, I really am ...you might be wondering why ?! 

Lol, I actually tried a different coloring method ....

YES !! Me !! Something besides Copics ! 

Don't get me wrong I have tried this coloring method many times before ,

and I could not get it to look the way I was envisioning it in my mind . 

I would give up (I know you should not give up ...practice .. practice..practice ) ! 

Ok , so now onto how I colored in these cuties from the 

Reverse Confetti  Hippity Hoppity  stamp set . 

Adore the name of this set so much, I had to use it as my post title ! 

I actually retried water coloring with my Distress Inks and Markers !!! 

Yay !! I am a huge fan of Kristina Werner , so as you can guess when I watched one of her amazing videos on coloring with Distress inks/markers ...I went straight to my local craft stores and purchased as many of the colors as they had available !!! Purchased the Strathmore , Archival and Bristol water color paper pads , brushes ..you get the picture ! Sat down and I was ready to color !! Here I am a couple of years after and I finally did it ,lol !!! 

I came to realize that I absolutely enjoy coloring images in with this method ...relaxing is the word that kept coming to my mind . It is important to note that I am not going for a certain "perfect" look I was going for soft and water colored . One of the tips I came to find is that the ink you use to stamp the image is very ( don't ask how much paper I wasted learning this ) important , since it has to stay in place while water is added . For me , the ink that ended up working best is
  Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black . 

Ohh and the colors I used for the images were Tattered Rose , Vintage Photo , Worn Lipstick , Chipped Sapphire and Mustard Seed .  If you would like to see more photos or to see the whole card and the goodies from Butterfly Reflections, Ink that I used please feel welcome to visit the post here . 

Thank you so much for stopping by !!

I look forward to coloring this way and sharing these projects with you !! 

Hoping you have a beautiful and Blessed day !!